AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

Price

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$ 97.99

$ 1360.01 significantly less expensive

$ 1458.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points

82% significantly better overall score

2357 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5864 points

53% significantly better gaming score

3808 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3810 points

97% significantly better multitasking score

1930 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points

99% significantly better heavy workload score

1850 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.40 points

180% significantly higher Blender score

37.23 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4930 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2457 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1138 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

862 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4754 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2505 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

875 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

71% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

409th of 1,089

650th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2019 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Ryzen 5 3500U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 1600X is faster than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3500U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3500U. The Ryzen 5 3500U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 1600X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3500U. The Ryzen 5 1600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.